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Agnes Grey (Vintage Classics) by Anne Brontë; Samantha Ellis (Introduction by)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Agnes Grey is an 1847 novel written by English author Anne Brontë. The novel is about a governess of that name and is said to be based on Brontë's own experiences in the field. It was Brontë's first novel. Similar to her sister Charlotte's novel Jane Eyre, this is a novel that addresses what the precari ...Show more
How to Be a Heroine Or, What I've Learned from Reading Too Much by Samantha Ellis
Category: Biography
While debating literature's greatest heroines with her best friend, thirtysomething playwright Samantha Ellis has a revelation--her whole life, she's been trying to be Cathy Earnshaw of Wuthering Heights when she should have been trying to be Jane Eyre. With this discovery, she embarks on a retrospe ...Show more
How to be a Heroine: Or, What I've Learned from Reading Too Much by Samantha Ellis
Category: Humour
Cathy Earnshaw or Jane Eyre? Petrova or Posy? Scarlett or Melanie? Lace or Valley of the Dolls? On a pilgrimage to Wuthering Heights, Samantha Ellis found herself arguing with her best friend about which heroine was best: Jane Eyre or Cathy Earnshaw. She was all for wild, passionate Cathy; but her frien ...Show more
Take Courage: Anne Bronte and the Art of Life by Samantha Ellis
Category: Biography
Anne Bronte is the forgotten Bronte sister, overshadowed by her older siblings - virtuous, successful Charlotte, free-spirited Emily and dissolute Branwell. Tragic, virginal, sweet, stoic, selfless, Anne. The less talented Bronte, the other Bronte. Or that's what Samantha Ellis, a life-long Emily and Wu ...Show more
Take Courage: Anne Bronte and the Art of Life by Samantha Ellis
Category: Biography Memoir
'I was wowed and moved' Tracy Chevalier Anne BrontU is the forgotten BrontU sister, overshadowed by her older siblings - virtuous, successful Charlotte, free-spirited Emily and dissolute Branwell. Tragic, virginal, sweet, stoic, selfless, Anne. The less talented BrontU, the other BrontU. Take Courage is ...Show more
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